# Kibana pods is throwing error message as (Another Kibana instance appears to be migrating the index) when installing ELK Stack for first Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 21, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pods-is-throwing-error-message-as-another-kibana-instance-appears-to-be-migrating-the-index-when-installing-elk-stack-for-first-time/196118 "2019-08-21T13:13:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Varun\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varun_s/32/48294_2.png) [@Varun\_S](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Varun_S)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pods-is-throwing-error-message-as-another-kibana-instance-appears-to-be-migrating-the-index-when-installing-elk-stack-for-first-time/196118/1 "2019-08-21T13:13:49Z")
Hi, We have Deployed Elk Stack in Kubernetes environment.Here we are deploying ELK Stack for the first time and also the cluster is new , And we observe that kibana pod is getting restarted. Elk Stack version used here is:- elasticsearch-oss-6.6.1-1.noarch Kibana Pod shows the below error message:- ``` "type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:05Z","tags":["plugin","warning"],"pid":1,"path":"/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/core_plugins/ems_util","message":"Skipping non-plugin directory at /usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/core_plugins/ems_util"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:07Z","tags":["status","plugin:kibana@6.6.1","info"],"pid":1,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:07Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@6.6.1","info"],"pid":1,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:07Z","tags":["status","plugin:console@6.6.1","info"],"pid":1,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:07Z","tags":["status","plugin:interpreter@6.6.1","info"],"pid":1,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:07Z","tags":["status","plugin:metrics@6.6.1","info"],"pid":1,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:08Z","tags":["status","plugin:timelion@6.6.1","info"],"pid":1,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:08Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@6.6.1","info"],"pid":1,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from yellow to green - Ready","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:08Z","tags":["info","migrations"],"pid":1,"message":"Creating index .kibana_1."} ``` \_ {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-08-20T11:10:08Z","tags":["warning","migrations"],"pid":1,"message":"Another Kibana instance appears to be migrating the index. Waiting for that migration to complete. If no other Kibana instance is attempting migrations, you can get past this message by deleting index .kibana\_1 and restarting Kibana."} Can you please help why we are getting this error message, Because we are deploying ELK Stack in the fresh Cluster. Regards, Varun S ---
**Author:** ![Varun\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varun_s/32/48294_2.png) [@Varun\_S](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Varun_S)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pods-is-throwing-error-message-as-another-kibana-instance-appears-to-be-migrating-the-index-when-installing-elk-stack-for-first-time/196118/2 "2019-09-10T10:09:02Z")
Hi Team, Any reply for this issue. If someone is looking into the issue can you guys please reply. Regards, Varun S ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pods-is-throwing-error-message-as-another-kibana-instance-appears-to-be-migrating-the-index-when-installing-elk-stack-for-first-time/196118/3 "2019-10-08T10:09:03Z")
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